Adventures in urban beekeeping

Wow, this month has really flown by. I realized yesterday that my bees arrive on Saturday, and while I’ve thought about them a lot since I put that check in the mail, I’m not quite ready for them.

So today I went down to my garage after work and looked through my pile of bee equipment, cleaned up some of it, tossed my bee suit in the washer, and made a list of the things I still need to buy before I pick up my bees on Saturday. Here’s the shopping list:

10 pounds of white sugar (used to make sugar syrup so the bees have something to eat)